I was swamped by work this week. I was still in office at 8 pm throughout of this week, except on friday. I took afternoon leave as i wanted to attend a talk which starts at 6. More of that later. I had lots to project complete this week. A few projects running concurrently. So i had to multi-task throughout this week. And prioritize as well. I put aside writing the release reports till next week. Developing the packages and releasing it on time is the utmost importance. I went home at 10pm on wednesday. I released the package at around 7.30 but had to stay in case my services is required again. I’m not complaining though. I can claim for the extra hours i put it. 🙂
I went for 2 events this week. On Friday evening, i was at Red Dot museum for the “Up Close Connexions with Jim Whithurst, President & CEO”.
He was invited to give a talk on his take on cloud computing. This is one of the area i am interested in. I was sitting on the 2nd row. So it was really an up close experience. Some of the interesting points i remembered about the talk.
- The trend of enterprise computing. He mentioned about the popular IT laws. Like Moore’s law which states (correct me if i’m wrong) the number of transistors that can be squeezed into a silicon wafer will double every 18 months). He mention a few others which i cant remember but the concepts is exactly the same i.e. things doubled after a period of time.
- Unlike Microsoft which has a name to their cloud solution, I did not hear him saying specifically about Redhat’s solution for cloud.
- 3 issues that enterprise IT would be facing and the fix.
- CIO stands for Career Is Over
- WTF is short for What’s The Fix? (I thought he was vulgar when i saw that in the slide.)
The event was also a good networking session. A few people I saw there. My OSOM course lecturer and my RHCE tester. The rest are unfamiliar.
On Saturday, I was at Toa Payoh for a Mind Your Money talk organized by MoneySense. There’s 2 topics presented. First, on CPF matters and preparing for our retirement. The most important point brought across is it’s never too early and too late to start planning for retirement. To plan for it, I have to know what I need. I have to live within my means to prepare for our retirement. The second topic is in making effective investment. For normal citizen like me, savings is not enough to prepare for my retirement. I have to invest and do it wisely. I have to know my risk appetite, how much return I want and knowing the instruments. I shouldn’t be greedy. I invest and I sit tight. Long term invesment should give me sufficient returns. And i shouldn’t be doing this by myself. I should seek advise from professional financial planners. They know better. These are all what i could recalled and learned. The webcast will be available in 2 weeks time.
With all this happening, i had little time for my personal geeky development. I only manage a few hours on android and send out a few new job applications. Okay enough of talking. I’m going to spend whatever is left of my Sunday on Android. Goodbye…
